Department

Departments are divisions in your organization. These can be categorized based on products, geographical locations and teams. Zoho Support enables you to manage customer support individually, for each department in your organization. Every department will have its own support process for which you can specify agents, configure support-e-mail addresses, track support tickets, set workflow rules, define service-level agreements and define business hours.

You can add, edit and disable the departments available in your organization. You can also make departments visible to customers in the customer portal or keep them private. Private departments are not visible to customers in the customer portal. Such departments are typically used for internal-ticket management.The tickets within the department will be displayed in the customer-service portal, however, the customer will not be able to view the name of the department.

Adding Departments

To add a department, follow the steps given below:

Click Setup

In the Organization section, click Departments

Click Add Department

Enter the following:

Name of the department

Name as you want it displayed in the portal

Description about the department

Check the Don't show this department in the customer portal checkbox if you want to keep the department private

You can add a new or associate an existing agent to a department.

Editing Departments

To edit a department, follow the steps given below:

Click Setup

In the Organization section, click Departments

Click Edit against a specific department

Make the required changes

Click Save

You can disable departments if you do not require them.

Disabling Departments

You can disable a department in Zoho Support. When you disable a department all the tickets, solutions, contracts, products, tasks, workflows and service-level agreements associated with it will be inaccessible. Any web forms generated for the department will have to be re-generated. You can re-enable the department when required.

Note:

You cannot delete departments. When you disable a department, you must transfer the agents associated with it to another active department.

To disable a department, follow the steps given below:

Click Setup

In the Organization section, click Departments

Click on the department that you want to disable

Click Disable

Click Transfer and Disable

Once the agents are transferred, they cannot access any information related to the disabled department. You can enable departments as and when required.

Enabling Departments

To enable departments, follow the steps given below:

Click Setup

In the Organization section, click Departments

In the dropdown menu, select Inactive Departments

Click on the department that you want to enable

Click Enable

When you disable a department, you are required to transfer all its agents to another department. Hence when you enable the disabled department, you are required to re-associate agents to it.

Editing Agents

You can edit the details of the agents who are associated with a department.

To edit agent information, follow the steps given below:

Click Setup

In the Organization section, click Departments

Click on the department for which you want to edit the agent information